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Brain Hacks is a colorful, high-energy graphic novel where five stressed-out teens meet online and form friendships as they learn strategies from each of their quirky brain-based CREW to navigate the ups and downs of their different high school experiences. With science-powered “mind magic,” they learn how thoughts, feelings, memories, and imagination can team up to build confidence, motivation, and problem-solve which all involve executive functioning. Packed with dynamic visuals, time-travel, and brain-boosting tips, this adventure makes managing a tween or teen’s mind feel like the coolest superpower ever. Ages: 11-18

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This powerful bundle, which includes the colorful and dynamic Brain Hacks graphic novel and the companion workbook, Thinksheets for Brain Hacks, shares practical strategies for tweens and teens to build their executive function skills. They will learn how thoughts, feelings, memories, and imagination can team up to build confidence, motivation, and problem-solving skills. This set is packed with useful neurodiversity affirming tools to help students (and their support team) apply the concepts shared in the graphic novel to their daily lives.

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Turn insight into action. Thinksheets for Brain Hacks is the hands-on companion workbook to the Brain Hacks graphic novel—featuring 50+ pages of thinksheets (aka thinking based lesson plans), charts, reflection prompts, and practical tools that bring every chapter to life. Designed for educators and young adult readers alike, this workbook style teaching tool bridges the gap between understanding and doing. Whether you're assisting tweens or teens or they are working through these ideas on their own, the neurodiversity-affirming tools within this book help connect the dots between what they've learned and how they can apply them in their daily lives. Chapter-by-chapter structure that mirrors the graphic novel, so no concept gets left behind Chapter summaries, key concepts, and learning outcomes to guide interventionists and caregivers Up to 5 targeted thinksheets per chapter designed specifically for tweens and teens Practical, neurodiversity-affirming strategies covering motivation, executive functioning, and self-regulation This isn't just a workbook—it's a personalized discovery process. Each reader uncovers the strategies that work for them, building real skills to rally motivation, get things done, and stay calm along the way. Best Practices: First, read the Brain Hacks graphic novel cover to cover. Next, grab this Thinksheet workbook. The two books are designed as a pair, with chapters that correspond directly to one another. The graphic novel introduces concepts around executive functioning and self-regulation through colorful illustrations and story and the thinksheets workbook gives students a chance to reflect and solidify their learning. 3. Connect each chapter of the graphic novel to the hands-on thinksheets while helping readers also connect to their own lives and experiences.  

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Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology  A new dawn of brain tracking and hacking is coming. Will you be prepared for what comes next? Imagine a world where your brain can be interrogated to learn your political beliefs, your thoughts can be used as evidence of a crime, and your own feelings can be held against you. A world where people who suffer from epilepsy receive alerts moments before a seizure, and the average person can peer into their own mind to eliminate painful memories or cure addictions. Neurotechnology will soon become the "universal controller" for all of our interactions with technology. This can benefit humanity immensely, but without safeguards, it can seriously threaten our fundamental human rights to privacy, freedom of thought, and self-determination. From one of the world's foremost experts on the ethics of neuroscience, The Battle for Your Brain offers a path forward to navigate the complex legal and ethical dilemmas that will fundamentally impact our freedom to understand, shape, and define ourselves.

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These brain hacks will help you make the most of your growing mind, deal with ALL the feelings, build friendships, and face life’s challenges with confidence. These skills grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and neuroscience help you manage difficult emotions, build better relationships, and face challenges from academic pressure to social drama. You’ll also understand how your brain works and why teen years are so intense. These are real skills you can use to stay cool when emotions take over.

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A step-by-step plan clinically proven to break the cycle of worry and fear that drives anxiety and addictive habits. In this timely book, Judson Brewer explains how to uproot anxiety at its source using brain-based techniques and small hacks accessible to anyone. Dr. Brewer teaches us to map our brains to discover our triggers, defuse them with the simple but powerful practice of curiosity, and to train our brains using mindfulness and other practices that his lab has proven can work. Dr. Brewer has created a clear, solution-oriented program that anyone can use to feel better - no matter how anxious they feel.

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The New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction - from Childhood through Adulthood Lost in the discussion of both childhood and adult diagnosis of ADHD is the potential upside: many hugely successful entrepreneurs and highly creative people attribute their achievements to ADHD. Also unknown to most are the recent research developments, including innovations that give a clearer understanding of the ADHD brain in action. Drs. Hallowell and Ratey, both of whom have this "variable attention trait" draw on the latest science to provide both parents and adults with ADHD a plan for minimizing the downside and maximizing the benefits of ADHD at any age. They offer an arsenal of new strategies and lifestyle hacks for thriving with ADHD.

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This book explores the fascinating advances that have been made in neuroscience, from the intricacies of memory and intelligence, to the enigmatic workings behind our sense of humor and our dreams. Full of illuminating illustrations and diagrams, this book lifts the lid on how drugs affect the brain; the science behind addiction; how the brain deals with trauma and pain; and how love, age and sex affect the brain. Finally, there is insight into cutting-edge scientific theories. The Secret Life of the Brain is written in accessible language for all readers who want to know more about a complex science.

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The social world is complicated. So are tweens and teens. They typically don’t want to be told what to do yet still struggle to solve their problems independently. As social learners, they need guidance and support in a way that feels right and makes sense to them. Sometimes with humor but always encouraging them to learn how the social world works so they can logically learn new social competencies to help them meet their own goals. This collection provides a range of information, visual supports, hands-on strategies, and tools to best meet their needs and developmental ages. The social mind is dynamic. It changes and evolves continuously throughout the tween and teen years as kids begin to forge a stronger sense of self. But as they age, the social world also expands in its complexity. Expectations for how a child makes sense of the social world, socially responds, and acts and reacts seem to shift and transform suddenly as more sophisticated social landscapes emerge on the horizon. The upshot? The older the kid, the more to teach and students to learn in their development of social and organizational competencies. This Tweens & Teens Bundle showcases a variety of ways to introduce and explore the multifaceted aspects of the social world based on a wide range of individuals’ social, emotional, and academic learning needs and their developmental ages. Inside the bundle: Brain Hacks – Graphic Novel Thinksheets for Brain Hacks The Feelings Scale Social Situation Mapping Tools to Try Cards for Tweens & Teens The Social Media Workbook for Teens Social Thinking and Me Two-Book Set Socially Curious and Curiously Social 3rd Edition Should I? or Shouldn't I? Revised Edition for Teens Healthy Relationships: A Guided Journal for Teens  

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The Train Your Brain Card Deck gives trauma survivors tangible, body-based interventions to retrain the brain and release themselves from the effects of trauma. Developed by trauma expert Dr. Jennifer Sweeton, the techniques in the deck target 5 areas of the brain to help trauma survivors: reduce anxiety and reactivity, develop greater body awareness, boost memory and concentration, regulate strong emotions, improve self-esteem.

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If you change your brain, you can change your life. Science is now revealing how the flow of thoughts actually sculpts the brain. It is possible to strengthen positive brain states. Combining neuroscience with insights from thousands of years of contemplative practice, this book will help you shape your own brain for greater happiness, love, and wisdom. Well-referenced and grounded in science, these practical tools and skills used daily can tap your brain's unused potential and rewire it for greater peace and well-being. If you can change your brain, you can change your life.

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Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior In Brain Lock, Jeffrey M. Schwartz presents a simple four-step method for overcoming OCD that is so effective, it's now used in academic treatment centers throughout the world. Proven by brain-imaging tests to actually alter the brain's chemistry, this method doesn't rely on psycho-pharmaceuticals. Instead, patients use cognitive self-therapy and behavior modification to develop new patterns of response to their obsessions. In essence, they use the mind to fix the brain. Using the real-life stories of actual patients, Brain Lock explains this revolutionary method and provides readers with the inspiration and tools to free themselves from their psychic prisons and regain control of their lives.

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